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March 24, 2005 Column: Has media underplayed Red Lake? 'I didn't hear it personally but got it from three good sources that there were complaints Tuesday on talk radio that "the media" had underplayed the Minnesota school shooting rampage... Response continues as Red Lake seeks to heal An update on the latest developments involving the fatal shootings on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Jeff Weise in a 2005 class photo. • Star Tribune: Red Lake School... Deadly tragedy puts focus on Native youth problems As the nation continues to look for answers to the deadly shootings on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota, attention is turning to the problems and facing issues facing Native... Scientist not sorry for using tribal members' blood A University of Arizona scientist says allegations that she misused the blood of member of the Havasupai Tribe are "hysterical." Therese Markow, currently the director of the UA Center for... Piestewa honored two years after death in Iraq Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, was remembered at a memorial in Phoenix attended by her best friend and former roommate Jessica Lynch and Piestewa's family.... Arizona lawmakers try to cut tribal college funding Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) has vetoed a state budget bill that sought to cut funding for Diné College. Under a compact signed in 1999, the state agreed to provide... Yellow Bird: Red Lake community in deep pain "This is a community of about 5,000 residents. And it is a community in pain. Being in Indian Country means many are related in some way to each other. When... Judge to hear tribal lawsuit against Yucca Mountain A federal judge will hold a hearing on April 27 in a lawsuit brought by leaders of the Western Shoshone against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. The Timbisha Shoshone... South Dakota Senate supports powwow grounds The South Dakota Senate passed a resolution on Tuesday to support the construction of powwow grounds along the Missouri River near Pierre. The United Sioux Tribes is proposing to operate... Lakota teenager's death brings youth to reservation The death of a Lakota teenager is leading to bridge-building among youth from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota and students from Ohio and Pennsylvania. Lakota Rose Madison,... Ojibwe Leader: Answers needed to help youth "My ancestors are from the area of Minnesota called Koochiching, which means where the waters narrow. We have links to the Red Lake tribe and I have felt a personal... Funding for Indian education called inadequate A proposed budget of $3.4 million to carry out Montana's Indian Education for All mandate isn't enough, Indian lawmakers and others said. The state constitution requires public schools teach about... Utah board to study payment for traditional services The Utah Crime Victim Reparations board created a subcommittee on Wednesday to consider whether traditional Native healers should be compensated for providing services to Native victims. Utah already pays for... Hopi chairman warns of losses due to plant closure The Hopi Tribe of Arizona will be forced to cut up to 35 percent of its budget if a generating station in Nevada closes, chairman Wayne Taylor Jr. said. The... Opinion: Media circus won't get to heart of matter "What [the media circus] will do, I'm afraid, is reduce this tragedy to a sociological event. 'Rural reservation' is carte blanche for journalistic speculation about social problems and cultural hopelessness.... Letters: Star Trib readers respond to tragedy C.D. Hilmoe: "When will we point the finger at ourselves? We're the ones who can help make a difference. We're the ones who can help keep our school leaders from... First Nation seeks answers in tuberculosis outbreak Leaders of the York Factory Cree Nation in Manitoba say they need more information from the government in order to combat an outbreak of tuberculosis that has infected one-quarter of... Haida Nation blockades stall logging on islands The Haida Nation of British Columbia has set up blockades around Queen Charlotte Islands to protest the provincial government's failure to consult over a $1.2 billion land and logging deal.... New Ron Howard film to depict conquest of Aztecs Famed director Ron Howard has signed a deal to direct "The Serpent and the Eagle," a film depicting the European conquest of the Aztec people in Mexico. Paramount Pictures will... Tohono O'odham Nation sues over telescope project The Tohono O'odham Nation filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday aimed at stopping a $35 million telescope project atop the sacred Kitt Peak. The lawsuit says the National... Opinion: Violence not uncommon at Red Lake "A s reports of another school shooting came out of Red Lake, Minn., we learned that seven students are dead (including the shooter, who took his own life); one security... State troopers defend actions in reservation raid Rhode Island state troopers accused of excessive force during a raid on the Narragansett Reservation began their defense on Wednesday after a federal judge dismissed several claims. The judge said... Burns denies wrongdoing for helping Abramoff client Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) denied any wrongdoing when he secured a $3 million appropriation for a wealthy client of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. As chairman of the Interior Appropriations subcommittee,... |